Hello!

The warmth has finally arrived, with that Endless Summer we’ve advertised in Los Angeles since the time of Bruce Brown. All of us kids had zero opportunity to get to the beach, yet wanted to be surfers … well, when we were 12.

So all we’re going to do is point out some interesting titles in the review hopper. Arrow has 4K and Blu-ray releases prepared of Paul Schrader’s  AMERICAN GIGOLO, a movie I had little to say about at the time because I resented actor Richard Gere, who I thought was a complete blank on screen. (Probably just envious of his looks). Twenty films later, Gere’s acting was much better. Plus the movie has Giorgio Morodoer and Blondie.

NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR (No Abras Nunca esa Puerta) is a noir extravaganza from Argentina, film adaptations of short stories by Cornell Woolrich. Noir must have been popular in Buenos Aires, for they made quite a few of their own, which Eddie Muller has been promoting for the last ten years or so.

I’ll soon find out if  VICTIMS OF SIN (Víctimas del Pecado) is the Mexican night clubs & gangsters feature I saw in a hotel in Mexico City … if so, it will be one of those Mexican thrillers with big-shouldered, big-suited hoods speaking well-enunciated standard Spanish and driving around in big ballooney late ’40s automobiles. Plus it’s got camerawork by Gabriel Figueroa and music by Pérez Prado.

Then The Warner Archive fields another one from the filmography of director Raoul Walsh — this time one of Ida Lupino’s biggest WB mellers,  THE MAN I LOVE.

Expected but not here yet is the hardcore revenge noir  ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann), 4K remasters of Joe Dante’s  MATINEE, Don Siegel’s  INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, and Sam Peckinpah’s  PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. Plus the 3-D  BWANA DEVIL, a little later. A stand-alone Paramount Blu-ray of the remastered  WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE is due on or before July 20. Those titles alone add up to a nice summer at CineSavant headquarters.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson